If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.